Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / February 2007

I was curious if anyone here was aware of any Perl module that spits
out a plain text version of an email?  So no matter what format (multi
or not) the emails was in, it would return just a text version.
Am useing Mail::Internet and did a search on CPAN, but perhaps I am

I went to upgrade one of my boxes today, and had probs with C::A
I sent an email to the module owner (address as in the perldoc) but
got a "550 - the lights are out" reply from cpan.
here's what happened. Looks like one of the test modules has a simple

I have installed mod_perl on my CentOS 4 machine.  I can tell:
[root@SP4659a ~]# perl -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl->VERSION'
1.9916
I would *assume* that the Web server has loaded it, because I

I'm looking for any online documentation of mod_perl that is complete
and generally believed to be error-free.  Every source of
documentation I've found has been plagued with so many omissions or
outright mistakes that it has been useless, or worse, almost resulted

I am working on a simple script using WWW:Mechanize to extract flight
details and everything works perferectly. However, I come to a road
block when I tried to extract the session cookies. I've been digging
around the internet/newsgroup for the last couple of days but still to

I am using my "$frm=$lb2->get('active')" statement to get the active element
in the listbox $lb2. I observed that when there is no active element in the
listbox $lb2, the "get" method takes element at the first index as active by
default.

... that I keep reading these two warnings:
Subroutine Tk::Derived::InitObject redefined at
       /Library/Perl/5.8.6/Tk/ChildNotification.pm line 19 (#1)
   (W redefine) You redefined a subroutine.  To suppress this

I am having trouble installing the GD perl module. Using MCPAN, won't
work, so I am attempting to do it manually, but iconv is causing me
problems. Any help in getting this module installed would be
appreciated.

short script to try to use this module:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

I ma trying to install modules using the CPAN module, specifically
Net::Jabber. however, whenever I try running the install Net::Jabber
command, I get the following output:
cpan[1]> install Net::Jabber

http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlBuildSystem/licence.txt
I don't know the exact rules of CPAN regarding non-free licenses, so I'm
not sure if this should be pulled. Unlike the Bantown license, it probably
doesn't prevent CPAN from distributing it. OTOH, if there were a mirror at

I'm trying to install a few modules to get Perl on RH Linux AS 3.0 to
speak to an Oracle 9.2.0.6 database.
I'm installing as ROOT:
Data-Dumper-2.121

I am working with version 1.4308 of GD::Graph and version 2.35 of the
perl GD module on Windows 2003 Server, perl build 5.8.8 (ActivePerl
build 820, specifically).
Previously I was using an older version of GD/GD::Graph on an earlier

I have installed Mail Tools 1.74.  I have also tried to use it in a
scripts but it bombs with this message.
Reference found where even-sized list expected at /usr/perl5/site_perl/
5.6.1/Mail/Send.pm line 17, <VAULT> line 2318518.

I'm trying to install CORBA::omniORB on Linux (Fedora Core 4) but I'm
getting the following compilation error:
g++ -c -D__x86__ -D__linux__ -D__OSVERSION__=2 -I/usr/local/include
-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -fno-strict-aliasing -